TABLE OF CONTENTS 



VOLUME ONE 



PREFACE xxi 



INTRODUCTION xxiii 



INORGANIC AND ORGANIC MATTER DISTRIBUTED ACCORDING TO THE SAME 

 GENERAL LAWS: GLOBULAR, CONCENTRIC, CURVED, SPIRAL, RADIATING, 

 BRANCHED, AND SEGMENTED ARRANGEMENTS OF MATTER. MOVEMENTS 

 AND RHYTHMS IN THE INORGANIC AND ORGANIC KINGDOMS— A FIRST 

 CAUSE NECESSARY 



§ 1. Atoms and Molecules under Guidance ............ 1 



§ 2- Straight-Line, Radiating, Concentric, and Spiral Formations with Traces of Segmentation ... 2 

 § 3. Radiating, Dendritic, Segmented, Concentric, and Spiral Arrangements common to Crystals, Plants, and 



Animals ................. .5 



PREVALENCE OF SPIRAL ARRANGEMENTS ON A GRAND SCALE IN THE 



PHYSICAL UNIVERSE 



§§ 4-7. Origin of Spiral Structures — Spiral Arrangements in Crystals, Plants, and Animals . . . 19-26 



§ 8. Examples of Radiating and Concentric Arrangements in Plants and Animals as illustrating Symmetry of 



Form .38 



§ 9. Dendritic or Branching Movement in Electric Fluid — Dendritic Formations in Crystals, Plants, 



Animals, &c. 47 



HEXAGONAL STRUCTURES 

 § 10. Recapitulation . ....... .... 88 



MATTER DIVISIBLE INTO SOLIDS, LIQUIDS, AND GASES— DISTRIBUTION OF 



MATTER— ORDER OF CREATION, &c. 



§ 11. Atoms and Molecules Fundamental in the Inorganic and Organic Kingdoms 93 



§ 12. The Effect of Environment Limited ... . . 94 



§ 13. The Organic and Inorganic Kingdoms reciprocate . ... . .94 



§ 14. Conservation of Energy . 95 



§ 15. Protoplasm : Its Nature and Function .... 95 



THE REPRODUCTIVE ELEMENTS OF PLANTS AND ANIMALS ESSENTIALLY AND 

 FUNDAMENTALLY DIFFER FROM THE BEGINNING 



§ 16. Neither Chemistry nor Physics can produce Life 98 



